School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

First published in 1980 and now considered a classic, " School Power" was the first book to demonstrate the positive effect of applying powerful psychological, social, and institutional forces on the performance of administrators, teachers, parents, and students. It shows how a university, a public school system, and parents worked together to move problem schools to an exceptional level of social and academic achievement. Now, reissued with a new preface and epilogue and a foreword by Marian Wright Edelman, "School Power" describes in detail the way that educators can use the knowledge of social and behavioral science, and education to overcome poor motivation, low self-esteem, discipline problems, and serious learning disabilities.

Education & Teaching

James P. Comer

Schools & Teaching

Free Press

Whether you are a parent-to-be or already a parent, you will want to read and reread Black Child Care. Comer and Poussaint have addressed in a sensible and intelligent fashion the major issues of raising black children. This book will be unparalleled for years to come.

Black Child Care: How to Bring Up a Healthy Black Child in America - A Guide to Emotional and Psychological Development

Parenting & Relationships

Alvin F. Poussaint

Parenting

Simon&Schuster

Black Child Care

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Rallying the Whole Village: The Comer Process for Reforming Education

For three decades now, the Yale School Development Program’s “whole village” approach has been transforming schools into places where students learn, develop, and thrive. Even students at risk become eminently successful in the same schools when SDP practices are established. With nearly 600 school communities across the nation trained in child psychiatrist James Comer’s holistic model of child development and comprehensive plan for school reform, the SDP now presents the specifics of that model and plan in action. Rallying the Whole Village: The Comer Process for Reforming Education is prepared for easy inclusion in graduate and undergraduate courses in education, special education, and social work, and for school administrators, district superintendents, researchers, and policy makers at all levels. Topics discussed by the authors include children’s psychosocial development, group dynamics of effective school communities, teacher preparation and school/university partnerships, appropriate alignment of classroom content to standardized tests, increased student engagement and learning time, research and evaluation, community health, government initiatives, and school/business partnerships. This volume will be an invaluable resource in the creation of school communities populated by healthy, well-functioning adults and children whose bright dreams of the future are truly attainable goals.

Michael Ben-Avie

Ben-Avie, Michael

Teachers' College Press

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